Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-10-02
AT WORK.
Building of the Railroad from
PerFis to SAN JacimtO.


Perris to San JacintO.
At last after long and untiring eff.
forts on the part of our citizens, we
have succeeded in arriving at definite
terms with the California Southern
Railroad Company, they agreeing to
build line OF road from Perris, a
point on that line, to San Jacinto, for
the sum of $50 600, which has been
raised, and was turned over to them
on Monday. As soon as the contract
was accepted and signed by Messrs.
Perris, Smith and other officials of the
road, an order was issued for work to
be commenced Immediately, which
was responded to by corps of sur
veyors being sent out to make correc-
tions in the old survey, and set per-
manent stakes for the graders to be-
gin work on. The company ordered
teams and men to be sent to Perris,
which will commence Immediately
and by the 31st of December will
have the grading completed and ready
for the ties and iron, which will be
put on as soon as the company's iron
is received from Europe.
LIE hOOAEs
Beginning at point near the Perris
depot, the line of survey extends in a
northeasterly direction, up across DR..
Miller's place, through the town of
Winchester, and traverses the mesa
near the foothills, terminating on the
Estudillo tract adjoining town. The
depot, which will be large and COM
mOdious one, will be located about six
hundred feet north from the old Estu-
dillo residence, and only about a
quarter of mile from the center of
town. There will be but comparatively
little grading to be done ON this line.
as for the greater part of the distance
it extends over the level and unbroken
mesa, which composes large portion
of our valley. This, of course, will
require little more than an ordinary
roadbed, but several good sized cuts
and fills have to be made where the
road comes through the pass.
Success in this enterprise is princi-
pally due to the efforts of Messrs. j.
A. Green, HI. G. Ashenfelter and
James Kerr, who were appointed by
the citizens as a committee to raise
subsidies and to confer with the
railroad company and arrange
terms, while valuable assistance was
rendered by Messrs. G. HI. Phar, P. l..
Webber, E. w. Fairchild, w. w.
Guthridge and others. The citizens
responded literally to the call for sub
scriptions and without single excep-
ton, all those who had their names
on the Old subscription list, (Which
had been gotten up in July, but owing
to the railroad company not being able
to get sufficient material to build the
road with, was refused) transferred
them to the new one for the same
amount, while others put a much
larger amount to their signatures.
This will give San Jacinto direct
railroad communication with San Di-
ego and intermediate points. 1t will
give us a ready market for all our pro-
duce.
Already the boom which is being
caused by this road is upon us, real
estate is changing hands rapidly.
Everybody is on the buy and sell, and
the times which we're 80 dull during
the months of July and August, are
now getting livlier every day. Capt.
talists will invest their money with us
and we shall soon be reaping the re-
ward of the dilligent and energetic
citizen.-fSan JacintO Register.